About

Fair Trending is an objective ranking of today's most popular
videos. We were inspired to build Fair Trending after noticing
how inconsistently known popular videos would appear
on the official
trending page. That, in addition to the confidentiality of the
trending algorithm, led us to wonder how strong of a role
objective metrics played in selecting the top trending videos.

Our goal with Fair Trending is to enable people to find the
videos that are popular without having to worry about
editorialized results. We also hope that, as an unbiased
ranking, it encourages creators to focus on making content
that their audience wants to watch without having to worry as
much about conforming to the subjective standards of a
platform gatekeeper.

How Does it Work?

Fair Trending's ranking algorithm is not unlike the algorithms
of other popular aggregator sites. Videos are given a score
according the following formula:

`v`: Number of views for the video

`l`: Number of likes for the video

`d`: Number of dislikes for the video

`t`: Age of the video in seconds

`log_(10)(v * l / (l + d)) - 1 / (60 * 60 * 12) * t`

A simple way to understand this formula is that a video loses
a point every 12 hours and gains a point every time it grows
by 10x. In other words, a video's score will not change if its
view count grows by 10x in 12 hours. These constants were
tuned to keep popular videos around for about a day.

Who made this?

Fair Trending was created
by Rian
Hunter. Hosting, testing, and feedback was donated
by Brian Smith. More
testing, and feedback was donated
by Andrea
Brizuela. We value the open nature of the internet as much
as you do. If you like the site and have ideas about
how it can be better, don't hesitate to send feedback.